Day: February 10, 2013

Catholic League: Bishops Respond to New HHS Rules

February 7, 2013 

Bill Donohue comments on the response by the bishops to the revised Health and Human Services (HHS) rules that were released last Friday:
 
Today’s statement by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and the remarks made by its president, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, make plain their interest in pursuing the on-going conversation with Obama administration officials on the HHS mandate. Their goal, as expressed by Cardinal Dolan, is to reach \”an acceptable solution\” to this issue.

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DUCKS Baseball Picked to Finish Third in Empire 8

 

 

 

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (February 7, 2013) – The Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team has been chosen to finish third in the Empire 8 Conference this season by the five coaches of the league. Stevens ended the 2012 season in third behind St. John Fisher College and Ithaca College after a 24-18 campaign.

Ithaca has been selected by the coaches to claim its 11th Empire 8 crown in the conference’s 13-year existence with four first place votes. The Bombers finished last season with a 29-10-1 overall record and earned a trip to the NCAA New York Regional Tournament.

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Letters: More Modern Way of Living

(Editor\’s note: The following Letter to the Editor, published in the Jan. 23 edition, has gone viral on the Web after a reader linked it to a Fox News Facebook page. It had received more than 4,000 comments and been shared more than 12,000 times by Tuesday morning.)

 

Beaufort, N.C.

Jan. 17, 2013

TO THE EDITOR:

Republicans and \”so-called\” conservatives are at it again. They are claiming that the Constitution gives people the right to have guns without the permission of the government. If that were true, then how could New York and Chicago have laws against it?

We Democrats are sick and tired of Republicans constantly using the Constitution to cover up their true plans, which are to make us all afraid of everyone else. Our great president came from a civilized part of the country where there is strict gun control, and he is only trying to bring the benefits of that more modern way of living to the rest of us. I don’t know the exact statistics, but I’m quite certain that Chicago is a lot safer that Morehead City, when it comes to gun violence.

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The Texas Growth Machine by Wendell Cox, City Journal WInter 2013

The data show that the Lone Star State’s prosperity is no mirage.

The American economy has had little to cheer about since the 2008 financial meltdown and the resulting recession. Recovery has been feeble, and many states continue to struggle. One bright spot in the general gloom, however, is Texas, which began shining long before 2008. Not only has Texas created jobs at a stunning rate; it has also—pace critics like the New York Times’s Paul Krugman—created lots of good jobs. Indeed, the rest of the nation could turn to the Lone Star State as a model for dynamic growth, as a close look at employment data shows.

The first thing to point out is that Texan job creation has far outpaced the national average. The number of jobs in Texas has grown by a truly impressive 31.5 percent since 1995, compared with just 12 percent nationwide, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data (see Figure One). Texas has also lapped California, an important economic rival and the only state with a larger population. The Texas employment situation after the financial crisis was far less spectacular, of course, with the number of jobs growing just 2.4 percent from 2009 through 2011. But that was still six times the anemic 0.4 percent growth rate of the overall American economy.

CONTINUE TO READ via www.city-journal.org

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Assembly Panel Advances Burzichelli & Eustace \”Death with Dignity Act\”

 

Measure Would Create a Thorough Process to Allow Terminally Ill Patients to Choose Their End of Life Option

(TRENTON) – An Assembly panel on Thursday approved legislation sponsored by Assemblymen John Burzichelli and Tim Eustace, known as the \”New Jersey Death with Dignity Act,\” which would allow voters to decide if New Jersey should create a process for terminally patients who wish to be provided medicinal assistance to end their lives.

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IN LOVING MEMORY OF LACEY CLEARY

 

August 2002 to February 9, 2013

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

 

You have a special place

Dear Lord,

 

that we know

you\’ll always keep.

A special place

reserved for dogs,

when they quietly fall asleep.

 

With large and airy kennels,

and a yard for hiding bones.

With maybe a

little babbling creek,

that chatters over stones.

 

With wide green fields and flowers,

for those who never knew

about running freely under,

Your sky of perfect blue.

 

Lord, we know You keep this Special Place,

And so to you we Pray.

For one Special Labrador Retriever

Who quietly died today.

 

She was full of strength & love,

and so very, very wise.

The puppy look she had,

never left her eyes.

 

She is dearly missed my Lord,

By all that knew her.

She went to join our family,

To Your land that is Devine.

 

So, speak to Lacey softly please,

And give her a warm hello.

She\’s a Special gift to you Dear Lord,

From the

Cleary, Gettings, Herrmann, Tussey, Woods Families

who loved her so.

 

 

 

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